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"There is a third option. Surrender. That, however, is never an option for the likes of you and me. And I doubt an enemy like this will let us surrender." - CPO Mendez speaking to 117 as he glanced at Harvest's destruction
Halo Reach was a planet colonized by humans. It was a major colony and eventually like the other fallen colonies it was attacked by the covenant. The Covenant outnumbered the humans they had approximately 350 ships and the UNSC had about 150. The UNSC mainly wins against Covenant ships when its 3 to 1 but this time the tables have turned. After The Pillar of Autumn fled they left every spartan behind except the Chief. Not everyone made it out alive. Then the events of Halo happen. It is found. Then destroyed. After it's destroyed not many made it out alive only a few people. The MC was drifting in space trying to look for survivors and finds a pelican with 4 survivors, Johnson, a high class official, a soldier, and the pilot. After they evade a Covenant patrol MC decides he wants to go back to Reach to see if they can receive help and to see if Reach still stands. When they go back they were able to find a signal that was being sent from a spartan. So they drop to Reach to find survivors. They do find some but soon after they evade underground to get away from the Covenant. Now the Covenant weren't just glassing the planet they were looking for something. It was a crystal that can make you travel in slipspace quicker than usual which is useful to the Covenant which would allow them to get to their primary target quicker, which was Earth. The crystal was found by MC while trying to hide from Covenant forces underground. Him and the rest of the surviving spartans and the Doctor where able to get out alive of a tight spot because they had hold of the crystal and the Covenant wouldn't shoot them because they didn't want to damage it. So they were able to get out alive and flee. Behind they left Reach and many fallen allies.